Bach's music has the perfection of a crystal. Structured with a mathematical precision but like a crystal its beauty lies in the way it refracts the light.
That's because Bach's music came directly from Heaven. There is no precedent to his or any of the composers who composed during his lifetime. It was simply a gift to humankind from above.
Many tempos are possible. As much as I enjoy Lipatti and Hess, it is at this tempo that the music is best illuminated to me: ruclips.net/video/WUo7tQOvapE/видео.html
What a divine vibration of sound, Bach must've loved Jesu so much to turn his inspiration into this masterpiece not to mention how exquisitely played by a master pianist.
Praise be to God for sending Jesus to this world to be our Joy and Peace. I have always have so much admiration for Bach's anointing in Music to Glorify the most high so this exceptional music from Heaven! It is a gift from God so know one can boast! and as Bach said before: Music is honor to God and Joy of man's desire. Amen.
This is beautifully played. Several pianists have played this, however. There is something about Dino Lipatti's version played at his last concert that is unworldly like he knew that he was about to see the face of God.
I so enjoy listening to and watching this young man play this beautiful piece of music. The music is among my favorites of all time and it was what I walked down the aisle to when I married my late husband. It will forever be played in heaven.
I think the melody is simple but it is never boring me. Why? Because I can feel various emotions through his delicate touch. From time to time, I visit here, listen to his play, and question to myself "How can he express such a rich emotion through such a simple melody?" I'm looking at his hands moving smoothly on the piano. Marvelous
Greatest piece of music ever composed . Exquisitely performed . The eternal universe can be felt in this piece . And these words are insufficient to describe the beauty !
This is a beautiful rendition. It is very brave indeed to tackle the piece so slowly - but in doing so, Goldstein gives it an ethereal, other-worldly quality which befits both the composer and, more pertinently, the subject-matter. There are good quicker performances out there - the one by Sandra Wright Shen is worth checking out - but Goldstein's is magical; and my favourite.
+andrew hall Not Brook but Ocean should be his name. - Ludwig Van Beethoven ("Bach" is the German word for "brook") Now there is music from which a man can learn something. - W. A. Mozart (on hearing Bach motets in Leipzig)
I couldn't play this - not because I can't play the notes but because the phrasing with the thumb and other fingers is so difficult to pronounce - perfectly done!
Given that it's the greatest 3 and 1/2 minute piece of music ever written, and that all versions - in their own way - are created equal (some may disagree with me) one of the many things that struck me in this recording is ; He got the Myyra Hess transcription without sounding like it has hiccups. This has the best of both worlds. :)
***** thanks for the validation:) Ironically Myra Hess plays with what sound like (in my opinion) sound like hiccups to me that I feel as disturbing the basic flow of the piece. And Goldstein is playing Hess' s arrangement! I guess I'm just a Philistine for having a problem with Hess's performance regarding the hiccup. However Hess is still far above Goldstein and among the best renditions/arrangements. As I listen more I'm getting used to what I originally complained as the Hess hiccup.
His hands and ears respect and give voice each phrase. There's character here, whole personalities that can rise, speak, and return to the heart of the piano, and the heart of the man who plays it, a language its own. And now it's yours, the sweet joy and the small fury with no crash, and the bright return home.
yeah, bringing out those accents in the leading melody pulses yet keeping the rest light and floaty there's a way to play this, ignore the hard accents of the melody in the middle, and still be beatuful in its own right but that extra layer of accentuation (and syncopation) elevates it from 2 to 3 voices on what still are only 2 limbs, and it's a make it or break it kind of thing, if you don't get it at least a little bit right, you may aswell not do at at all, and leave it out for the 2-voice version, it sounds very abrasive very quickly when now i'm a sucker for darker sounding pianos like the bösenforfers, they can mask quite a bit in resonance, but on a bright piano with a strong attack that triggers without too much physical effort, this is crazy hard to get right
We got married to this My dear friend headed the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music for many years, I told him our wishes, trusted him to do right by us and with me sobbing like a weirdo on my dad's arm, this was played live while I walked to join the love of my life. I still cry hearing it. So many happy blessed memories and love how skillfully and masterfully this was played. Thank you
That's it! Bach, Hess and Norman. You got it - the three of you. I am literally weeping with joy at the beauty you've brought forward. Thank you. Thank you.
I have always loved this piece ,, I think that Mr Goldstein does a very good job . I happen to also love Dame Myra Hess and Dinu Lipattis version . This is music for the soul .
It is inspirational! Phenomenal and the meaning behind this music is incredible. Can you just feel it? it makes me feel closer to God and feel like crying because I have fibers in my soul that music like this touches.
My mother played this to me on more occasions than i dare to remember. She tried to teach me how to play but unfortunately I was a lost cause ! Just beautiful !!
This is just beautiful. The composer fr this needs some major credit as this should be the theme song of a peaceful life and of heaven. Really shows the beauty of classical music and the piano.
Many years ago, I heard Alon Goldstein perform a Rachmaninoff concerto live. Jesu was his encore. Inner voicings wafted up so clearly and beautifully. Incredibly touching and mesmerizing... could have heard a pin drop in the massive hall.
this (and perhaps every) piece by Bach actually hard to consistently play in the correct tempo. I called this the best video I've found on youtube to perform this piece. the phrasing and intonation just perfect. In every sustain he allows a break to make the notes really spread into the room.
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Finally an interpretation of this master piece at the right tempo! Thank you
Have you heard Lipatti?
ruclips.net/video/k7PNFDrcqmY/видео.html
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This is what I will hear when I meet God after I die.
*if
@@LionKing-mv2uk Big IF*
@@LionKing-mv2uk, or reunited with friends on the Heaven
I hope so mate👍
@C No, because we pray for you and you are saved. Nice try!
Bach's music has the perfection of a crystal. Structured with a mathematical precision but like a crystal its beauty lies in the way it refracts the light.
That's because Bach's music came directly from Heaven. There is no precedent to his or any of the composers who composed during his lifetime. It was simply a gift to humankind from above.
This was the signature to declare an instrument ready to be shipped to those who ordered it
Total perfection. Played with reverence and devotion. This is as good as this piece will ever be played on this side of eternity.
I completely agree. I've yet to hear a rendition as beautiful as this one.
Indeed.
Very nice interpretation…second to Daniel Tritonov.
Pretty much; you may be right.
Piece, please, not song.
One of the most sensitively played versions of this magnificent piece! It brings peace to my soul!
IN FULL AGREEMENT TO THAT!
@@benoitdurand1613 me too.
Incredible, without words. Soft touch on the keys when needed, firm touch on the keys when appropriate.
The notes and melody are actually so simple. But it takes an artist like this to achieve perfect legato and make the piece sing. 👏
And a good piano, too. This Steinway sounds amazing.
Не простые.
Its not simple. Your being simple
Steinway is an instrument!!@@BleedandRise
A Steinway is an instrument, not a piano. Take that from the son of one who built them.
Well....isn't that just about the loveliest thing you've ever heard..... (in tears)
Michael Thomas So do I too!!
Agreed!
I like the way he plays it. Effortless and smooth.
We've just found the perfect entrance music for my Mother - in - Law's funeral this coming Monday.
A man of such accomplishment wrote a devotional piece with enormous humility.
I finally get it. You should play this like a child in awe.
Everyone plays this too fast but this tempo is perfect.
I think the same.. but try the Shiro Sagisu version covered in the anime "Neon Genesis Evangelion". to me it's almost perfect
Influenced by Dinu Lipatti. The guiding light.
Just on point!
Many tempos are possible. As much as I enjoy Lipatti and Hess, it is at this tempo that the music is best illuminated to me: ruclips.net/video/WUo7tQOvapE/видео.html
Nashville Guitarist Yes it really is
What a divine vibration of sound, Bach must've loved Jesu so much to turn his inspiration into this masterpiece not to mention how exquisitely played by a master pianist.
Praise be to God for sending Jesus to this world to be our Joy and Peace. I have always have so much admiration for Bach's anointing in Music to Glorify the most high so this exceptional music from Heaven! It is a gift from God so know one can boast! and as Bach said before: Music is honor to God and Joy of man's desire. Amen.
Totally agree. Amen.
Superior Level of Playing; Interpreting the wonderful style of J.S. Bach. . . . .
humanity's twine with the universe expressed in a few short minutes. Just wow.
My wife and I had this piece playing in the church just before our wedding. Listening to it brings back a lot of beautiful memories.
yes, it is a very common at weddings
my wife's boyfriend likes this one very much also, he told me.
This is the best interpretation I ever heard. Beautifully played. Bach would played the same way ...
This is beautifully played. Several pianists have played this, however. There is something about Dino Lipatti's version played at his last concert that is unworldly like he knew that he was about to see the face of God.
@@tomkelly4336 do you have a link to that video? I can't seem to find it
@@thecoasterman100 I am sorry I am computer illiterate, I know that it is here because I have listened to it. I am so sorry, Namaste Tom
@@thecoasterman100 Should be this one ruclips.net/video/R0085wPebZc/видео.html
This music is heavenly, so moving, the most beautiful version I've heard.
I love this tune, One of my favourite classical pieces 😊
I like it to:-)
This is balm to the soul! I had this played at my mothers funeral! She and dad would have loved it!!
Alon vc tocou bach excelente apresentação, jesu joy of mans parabens
JE N'ARRÊTE PAS DE LUI FAIRE RÉPÉTER ET ENCORE RÉPÉTER CETTE MERVEILLEUSE INTERPRÉTATION. BRAVO!
This can bring tears
Such a beautiful singing tone he brings out of the piano. God's people are truly blessed. Thank you
Alon is such a great pianist, driven performer, family man, and great person. He is unbelievable!
Bravo. Alon does play this brilliantly and as NashvilleGuitarist said at the right tempo.
There's no rush to the joy of perfect music.
Bach Will be smiling About this magnificent interpretation .
I so enjoy listening to and watching this young man play this beautiful piece of music. The music is among my favorites of all time and it was what I walked down the aisle to when I married my late husband. It will forever be played in heaven.
I think the melody is simple but it is never boring me.
Why?
Because I can feel various emotions through his delicate touch.
From time to time, I visit here, listen to his play, and question to myself
"How can he express such a rich emotion through such a simple melody?"
I'm looking at his hands moving smoothly on the piano.
Marvelous
A fantastic rendition, the best I have heard.
What would Glen Gould think of this interpretation? he would have loved it. Thank you for this beautiful piece!
My favorite piano version of this classic,nice and slow almost perfectly played.
JSB would have certainly approved.
gorgeous playing there. I felt like applauding from my computer after hearing that performance.
His distinction between the choral lines and the string lines is the best I have ever heard.
The pianist played beautifully. The music warmed our hearts and made us love Jesu Christ even more.
His voicing is so...amazing. Encore!!!
I had heard many, for me, this is the best performance of J, J of Man's Desiring
Greatest piece of music ever composed . Exquisitely performed . The eternal universe can be felt in this piece . And these words are insufficient to describe the beauty !
This was my Grandma's favorite piece to play--we used it our wedding and without knowing that it was also used at my son's wedding. This is wonderful.
Wonderful voicing, tone and phrasing, very difficult to do in this piece. Deserved another encore
The piano also has a great timbre.
@@MDkid1 What kind of timber is it?
Cannot agree more, I love this piece, but I really hate to learn this piece. It is actually very difficult to play!
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This is a beautiful rendition. It is very brave indeed to tackle the piece so slowly - but in doing so, Goldstein gives it an ethereal, other-worldly quality which befits both the composer and, more pertinently, the subject-matter. There are good quicker performances out there - the one by Sandra Wright Shen is worth checking out - but Goldstein's is magical; and my favourite.
That is really nicely put. I couldn't agree more.
His tempo and intonation are perfect
It all begins and ends with Bach.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
+andrew hall he never said that?
+andrew hall
It was Brahms who said, "Study Bach. There you will find everything."
+andrew hall
Not Brook but Ocean should be his name.
- Ludwig Van Beethoven ("Bach" is the German word for "brook")
Now there is music from which a man can learn something.
- W. A. Mozart (on hearing Bach motets in Leipzig)
Beethoven was a dark wizard compromised shill. Ode to Joy is a hypnotic spell. Bach is the man who did more to heal humanity than most.
@@CaptainRetsuUnohana Bach The White, God´s Right Hand
Alan brings out the secret voices in the piece. Bravo!
Masterful! Every note is precise in time and resonance. The rits are perfection. Don’t miss a chance to hear him in person!
I couldn't play this - not because I can't play the notes but because the phrasing with the thumb and other fingers is so difficult to pronounce - perfectly done!
Such beautiful hands, touch, played with so much sensitivity. Myra Hess did an incredible job on this transcription, as well.
Given that it's the greatest 3 and 1/2 minute piece of music ever written, and that all versions - in their own way - are created equal (some may disagree with me) one of the many things that struck me in this recording is ; He got the Myyra Hess transcription without sounding like it has hiccups. This has the best of both worlds. :)
***** thanks for the validation:) Ironically Myra Hess plays with what sound like (in my opinion) sound like hiccups to me that I feel as disturbing the basic flow of the piece. And Goldstein is playing Hess' s arrangement!
I guess I'm just a Philistine for having a problem with Hess's performance regarding the hiccup. However Hess is still far above Goldstein and among the best renditions/arrangements. As I listen more I'm getting used to what I originally complained as the Hess hiccup.
how can anybody dislike this music, this rendition, these Goldfingers..soooo beautiful
His hands and ears respect and give voice each phrase. There's character here, whole personalities that can rise, speak, and return to the heart of the piano, and the heart of the man who plays it, a language its own. And now it's yours, the sweet joy and the small fury with no crash, and the bright return home.
Divine.
I listen to this every day
he brings out the melody line. pure genius and talent and soul.
No one can play it better than him!!
Awesome!!
OMG... I truly believe, that Bach had a direct line with God through his music, like his telephone number to speak with him...
This was very fine and sensitively played.
The hardest thing about this piece is bringing the tune out especially in the middle minor section.
James Rose yes
James Rose I’m working on this, and I agree. I like how it’s slower here. Nice peaceful rendition
yeah, bringing out those accents in the leading melody pulses yet keeping the rest light and floaty
there's a way to play this, ignore the hard accents of the melody in the middle, and still be beatuful in its own right
but that extra layer of accentuation (and syncopation) elevates it from 2 to 3 voices on what still are only 2 limbs,
and it's a make it or break it kind of thing, if you don't get it at least a little bit right, you may aswell not do at at all, and leave it out for the 2-voice version, it sounds very abrasive very quickly when
now i'm a sucker for darker sounding pianos like the bösenforfers, they can mask quite a bit in resonance, but on a bright piano with a strong attack that triggers without too much physical effort, this is crazy hard to get right
This actually brough me to tears
Beautiful. The Myra Hess arrangement is my darling Ma's favourite.
The respect shown by his fellow musician watching… Very moving 🙏🏼
It is still amazing to me that after almost 400 years this composition still affects us. Bach is still the greatest composer who ever lived!
Почти 300. Откуда 400?!
Makes you think about God, Heaven and perfection. Played with love and care.
Gentle and graceful joy in Jesus
We got married to this My dear friend headed the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music for many years, I told him our wishes, trusted him to do right by us and with me sobbing like a weirdo on my dad's arm, this was played live while I walked to join the love of my life. I still cry hearing it. So many happy blessed memories and love how skillfully and masterfully this was played. Thank you
That's it! Bach, Hess and Norman. You got it - the three of you. I am literally weeping with joy at the beauty you've brought forward. Thank you. Thank you.
This was played during my wedding mass. 33 years ago. It fills one's heart with boundless joy.
Beautiful tempo, beautiful performance
It is one thing to play the notes but another to be a musician. Wonderful.
I have always loved this piece ,, I think that Mr Goldstein does a very good job . I happen to also love Dame Myra Hess and Dinu Lipattis version . This is music for the soul .
So true
Tom Kelly yes
End of Eva... This piece is so sorrowful, but heartwarming. A perfect choice
@Electric Sheep The reboots are absolute garbage, don't watch them. It is indeed as you say "why mess with perfection"
This man just shared his soul and the audience looks bored. Well, I got it, and I enjoyed it; it made sense to me. Thanks for posting!
Great performance, beautiful layering of the melody, inner voices and bass.
davidofpiano423 very true
Teary every time listening to how well he plays this masterpiece.
Incredible voice clarity.
Every piano student should be required to listen to Mr. Goldstein's performance of this piece.
Bravo!!
You are giving us the voice of heaven, unbelievably beautiful, this is the sound of Jesus, God bless you!!!
If there is a Heaven, Bach plays this at least once a week for all to hear.
There is, in Jesus there everlasting life. Read the new testament.
It is inspirational! Phenomenal and the meaning behind this music is incredible. Can you just feel it?
it makes me feel closer to God and feel like crying because I have fibers in my soul that music like this touches.
My mother played this to me on more occasions than i dare to remember. She tried to teach me how to play but unfortunately I was a lost cause !
Just beautiful !!
Superb! And sound-quality too!
absolute perfection
The greatness of this masterpiece he plays with wonderful skill is unfathomable, immeasurable and beyond description.
Wonderful arrangement and beautifully played. Nice Steinway too. Great job!
This is just beautiful. The composer fr this needs some major credit as this should be the theme song of a peaceful life and of heaven. Really shows the beauty of classical music and the piano.
The composer is Johann Sebastian Bach. The piece is arranged for piano by Myra Hess.
One of the best interpretation I’ve heard !!!
Divine!
it is the best version that i've ever experienced...he plays as if he were talking to angels right up there...speechless in messages...
Bravo! Kills me to hear coughing and murmurs on this gorgeous recording. Fabulous rendition indeed.
Celestial
it is awesome. That sound reminded me of someone.
ha hoang homesick for a place you've never been
I would love this for the opening when I get married. ^^ So beautiful.
So very beautiful .. and so humble 🕊️
Close my eyes listen and I am transported off to another place magnificent!
Many years ago, I heard Alon Goldstein perform a Rachmaninoff concerto live. Jesu was his encore. Inner voicings wafted up so clearly and beautifully. Incredibly touching and mesmerizing... could have heard a pin drop in the massive hall.
this (and perhaps every) piece by Bach actually hard to consistently play in the correct tempo. I called this the best video I've found on youtube to perform this piece. the phrasing and intonation just perfect. In every sustain he allows a break to make the notes really spread into the room.
Trifonov towers over this one but it is pretty good indeed
Amazing voicing
Bravo! Slower tempo allows me to enjoy it that much longer!
He never loses the melody! Beautiful
truly an amazing performer and the song will always be timeless, I cant imagine playing this from memory this is astounding. So glad youtube has this
Simply beautiful to hear that melody stand out, like an orchestra in his hands.
Awesome piano playing:) Such a beautiful piece to drift of into a world of peace and harmony!!!!